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Children get egg-cited for Easter at Lariccia Center
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Children worked on crafts and made different projects that they could take home after the evening was over.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Vinny Melewski worked on coloring in his picture with paints that were available for a craft at the Easter Bunny event.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Ashley Cordon sat with the Easter Bunny on March 9 at the Evening with the Easter Bunny event at Lariccia Family Community Center.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Kaylee pet Patches the rabbit who came to visit the children at the Easter Bunny event on March 9.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
The Easter Bunny hopped its way to the Lariccia Family Community Center on March 8 and 9 for an evening with the Easter Bunny.
A two-night Dinner with the Easter Bunny event took place at Boardman Park for children and their families to celebrate Easter and the upcoming spring season. Families spent the evening visiting the Easter Bunny, eating a meal, making different crafts and also petting a real rabbit.
Families enjoyed the two-hour event by eating a meal when they first got there. After the meal, the children and their families went into the joining room to work on crafts and get a picture with the Easter Bunny.
“They get to enjoy the spring and Easter season as a family,” said Karen McCallum, the recreation director of Boardman Park.
The children lined up to visit the Easter Bunny and tell them what they were hoping to find in their Easter basket. There were also several tables set up with different art projects for the children to work on. There was a picture for the children to color in with paint, a paper bag and other supplies to transform the bag into a rabbit and different types of paper to make Easter cards with.
For the last three to four years, a member of the 4H club brought in her rabbit, Patches, for the children to pet. Patches was a black and white rabbit who attracted a lot of attention. The children rushed over to pet him and feel how soft a real bunny is.
“It’s that kind of magic, it’s that fun, that experience that’s part of our programming at the park,” McCallum.